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Activation
Procedures for Digital
Edition

First, make sure you
have available your Boson Courseware purchase receipt
email.

The Boson Courseware is
delivered electronically and protected using Drumlin PDF Security. You
will need the activation keys from your purchase receipt email to unlock
the content and make it available on your
computer.

You will use the
Javelin e-reader from Drumlin to access the Courseware documents.
Download and install the Javelin Reader. This is the same link that you
will find in the Product Delivery section of your purchase receipt
email.

After you have installed
the Javelin Reader, you should now download each
courseware document that you purchased. Your purchase receipt email
will contain a download link for each document. Use these links to
download your documents and store them in a folder on your computer. The
content files will have an extension of .DRMZ

After you have
downloaded the protected courseware content files, you will now use the
activation key to unlock the document. Launch the Javelin reader and
choose File, Open from the main menu. Browse to the folder where you
saved your content and select the document you wish to
open.

When you open
the selected document, you will be prompted for an activation key to
unlock your document. Copy the appropriate activation key from your
purchase receipt email and paste it into the activation key
textbox.

Your content will be
unlocked and will be viewable in the Javelin
reader.

Boson
Courseware iPad Activation

This video demonstrates the iPad
activation instructions that are listed below.

Go
to the App store and install the free Javelin for iPad
app.

Launch
the App after the install
completes

Press the download
button in the Javelin Reader app toolbar (highlighted in
red)

Copy and paste in the Link to the Boson Courseware iPad Catalog: http://s3.amazonaws.com/boson/cw/bosoncatalog.xml (case sensitive).

Click the green
Download button

An index of the
Boson Courseware Documents will appear. The document icons are gray,
indicating they have not yet been downloaded or
activated.

Tap
the icon for the first document and click Yes to begin downloading
it:

Download
in progress:

When
the download is complete, you will be prompted for the activation code
for this document:

Enter the
activation code (real codes will show up as typed, not XXXXXXXXX).

When
successfully activated, the document will display. The usual iPad
gestures can be used to read the document.